State of Play VI: Speakers' Bios

Profile

Dan Hunter is an expert in Cyberspace and Internet law, artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law, and electronic commerce regulation. He is joining the New York Law School faculty as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, while he teaches as an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge. He earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws cum laude from Monash University, Australia. Hunter has also taught at University of Melbourne, where he received his LL.M. (by Research).

At Wharton, he received the Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2000, and was a Herchel Smith Research Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Emmanuel College in Cambridge, England. He serves as a panelist for the World Intellectual Property Organization Domain Name, and is an executive board member for the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.

Since October 2000, Professor Hunter has been a Member, Panel of Neutrals, Domain Name Disputes, World Intellectual Property Organization (Switzerland). He also serves as Staff Editor to AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL, Executive Board Member to the CENTER FOR COMPUTER ASSISTED LEGAL INSTRUCTION (USA), and as an Editorial Board Member to the JOURNAL OF INFORMATION, LAW AND TECHNOLOGY (England).

His writing has also been featured in Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2003), and California Law Review (2003). His current projects include open source and Marxism, and the social significance of peer-to-peer technologies. Professor Hunter teaches Intellectual Property; Cyberlaw; and Information Law Capstone.

Selected Publications

• Building Intelligent Legal information Systems (Kluwer)
• The Laws of Virtual Worlds, coauthored with Gregory Lastowka (California Law Review)
• Editorial Positions with:
  • Journal of Law and Information Science
  • Computers and Law
  • International Journal of Applied Expert Systems